Reposted by Kaspa ThompsonJake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 17hNew working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854 8985253666
Reposted by Kaspa ThompsonMarie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 09/10/2026anyway yeah, I wrote an unhinged screed against the very concept of online recommendations: youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/against-re... [free to read!] 6537
Reposted by Kaspa ThompsonRyan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 09/10/2026Why does Korea have a holiday for the alphabet? Because unlike other writing systems that evolved over centuries, Hangul was the work of one dude who solved mass illiteracy by sitting down and creating a brand new fully-formed system from scratch that anyone can learn almost instantly. 141080444
Reposted by Kaspa ThompsonCamellia Tea Ceremony @camelliakyoto.bsky.social · 09/10/2026🙏BIG BUDDHA AMONGST THE COSMOS😇 Nara is one of the best places in Japan to see cosmos, and in recent years Hannya-ji (般若寺) has taken great efforts to make itself one of the best places in Nara to enjoy the flowers... ...that, and a very unusual soda🥤 #Japan #コスモス #奈良 15813
Reposted by Kaspa ThompsonMatthew Stewart @roguestrands.bsky.social · 02/11/2025What's it like to return to your home town years after leaving? This poem from Whatever You Do, Just Don't finds that nothing's changed. But then everything's changed too... 1232158
Kaspa Thompson @kaspalita.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Great report. Mentions that 2019-2021 was when climate concerns polled highest in the UK - doesn't mention that these were the years when Extinction Rebellion and the Friday School Strike were most active... 031
Reposted by Kaspa ThompsonEllie Mae O'Hagan @elliemaeohagan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I want to talk about this story and removing levies from bills. As always I'm going to explain it all in layman's terms so people who are not energy nerds can understand what these debates about how to lower their energy bills actually mean www.theguardian.com/money/2026/o...theguardian.comChancellor plans major intervention to help poorer UK households with rising energy billsExclusive: Officials working on further radical changes that would change how much energy companies could charge customers 64525
Reposted by Kaspa ThompsonJim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social · 06/10/2026This gets said constantly, but it worth reiterating: Games Workshop being bigger than fishing is important to shout about because you wouldn't know it from government talking points, which are rarely about anything creative or artistic. Growth won't involve fish or steel, it will involve goblins. 502625645
Reposted by Kaspa ThompsonGavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026How India saved its tigers—and lions and rhinos and elephants www.economist.com/asia/2026/10...economist.comHow India saved its tigers—and lions and rhinos and elephantsIndia’s wildlife-conservation success holds lessons for other environmental efforts 1259
Reposted by Kaspa ThompsonGail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 04/10/2026You guys want to hear a short but adorable story that happened right in front of me at the baggage claim in NYC yesterday? I wasn't part of it and there are bits I didn't catch but holy crap, I can't stop thinking about it. 5440621220
Reposted by Kaspa ThompsonRain Hayes @rainhayes.com · 30/09/2026I find photographing flowers very uplifting. When I was younger, doing creative work helped me cope. These days it feels much lighter. (I guess it worked?) Passiflora 'Susan Brigham' under UV light. 1246357
Reposted by Kaspa ThompsonDr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Happy Wednesday to all who celebrate! 2583
Reposted by Kaspa ThompsonStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I haven’t read all of the books in @igmansfield.bsky.social’s list, but I have read enough of them to say confidently that this is a fantastic list of books to read and I am very much looking forward to completing the set:edrith.co.ukThe 25 Science-Fiction Books You Must Read, RankedAnd six short story collections 2812323
Reposted by Kaspa ThompsonMags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Every year on 19 December, the famous Christmas lights at Mousehole in Cornwall are dimmed between 8 and 9pm, leaving just the Cross and Angels shining down across the village and out to sea. 10830433
Kaspa Thompson @kaspalita.bsky.social · 18/09/2026This week I've been reading Yoon Ha Lee's Machineries of Empire trilogy (just started book three) and it is so good! Big recommend from me. 001
Reposted by Kaspa ThompsonDavid_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I joined some of my coworkers in writing about what Annie Dillard's writing meant and means to us. Line for line and lesson for lesson I think she's absolutely as good as it gets. defector.com/annie-dillar...defector.comAnnie Dillard Gave It All | DefectorFollowing this week’s news that the brilliant writer Annie Dillard has died at age 81, some Defector staffers wrote about what her work and example have meant to them. Much is made of Dillard’s genius... 212718
Kaspa Thompson @kaspalita.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Great chat with Ananda about what he learnt from 15 years running a charity helping people. humannaturebuddhanature.com 010
Reposted by Kaspa ThompsonAlex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I would love to ask a prominent BBC journalist to give me an example of an illegitimate concern. Is seems to me that it has become a question not of fact, logic, or ethics but of volume. If a big enough proportion of a village was anxious about Bigfoot or Chemtrails, BBC would cover it in a way... 791708565
Reposted by Kaspa ThompsonEoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Cantabrian brown bears have clawed their way back from the edge of extinction in northern Spain, and nature tourism keeps villagers in jobs where farming culture cannot. Rewilding hugely benefits rural life and economies. www.theguardian.com/travel/2026/...theguardian.com‘So big and so close’: spotting endangered bears on a trip to northern SpainConservationists have helped Cantabrian brown bears claw their way back from the edge of extinction in the beautiful mountains of Asturias – and carefully controlled nature tourism allows visitors to ... 624569
Kaspa Thompson @kaspalita.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I have to say all the Star Trek talk on all the platforms brings me great joy. 021
Reposted by Kaspa ThompsonDr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 06/09/2026The RNLI have some of the best people in Britain volunteering for them. They put their lives on the line when they are called on and they will rescue anyone who needs them. Because every life matters, and offering help is the right thing to do. You can donate here: rnli.orgrnli.orgRNLI - Royal National Lifeboat Institution - Saving Lives at SeaThe RNLI is the charity that saves lives at sea. We do this through lifeboat search and rescue, lifeguards, water safety education and international interventions. 161168607
Kaspa Thompson @kaspalita.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I wouldn't believe it unless I'd seen it with my own eyes. 000
Reposted by Kaspa ThompsonLitbowl @litbowl.bsky.social · 05/09/2026"You know the way Jesus rips open his shirt to show us his heart, all flaming & thorny..." Haven't stopped thinking about some of these lines since I read them 15 years ago, pretty much. From Nick Flynn's book, Some Ether: bookshop.org/a/862/9781555973032 #poem #booksky #writing 1194
Reposted by Kaspa ThompsonGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 04/09/2026The government must know full well that many people have neither the space nor the money to store extra food in their homes. It is individuating responsibility for a collective problem. As usual, it is the poorest and most excluded who will suffer from it. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comMinister tells Brits to stock up on days of supplies after ‘supersize’ El Niño warningExclusive: Angela Eagle urges UK citizens to be ‘a bit more resilient’ as they plan for national emergencies 1032071793
Kaspa Thompson @kaspalita.bsky.social · 03/09/2026I read this as, I can't believe they decided Earth isn't a piano anymore 110
Kaspa Thompson @kaspalita.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Episode three of Human Nautre/Buddha Nature is now available! humannaturebuddhanature.com/podcast/epis...humannaturebuddhanature.comEpisode Three: Beginnings – a Conversation with Satya Robyn; Dolly Parton and Personal Buddhas – Human Nature/Buddha Nature 000
Reposted by Kaspa ThompsonIlya Kaminsky @ilyakaminsky.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Grateful to Maya C. Popa and Poem-A-Day for publishing this translation Katie Farris and I did of a piece by Lyudmyla Khersonsky, a wonderful poet from Odesa, Ukraine. I met Lyudmyla back in 1993 when I was still a sixteen year old in Odesa. She taught me English alphabet. 14813
Reposted by Kaspa ThompsonThe Verge @theverge.com · 02/09/2026As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.theverge.comThere is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter seriesYou can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry. 367201339890
Reposted by Kaspa ThompsonAnna Horroridge @anna-orridge.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Thank you, Louis 2136
Reposted by Kaspa ThompsonLætus @bajamothblast.vanadiel.network · 01/09/2026Happy Bisexuality Visibility Month 51012458
Reposted by Kaspa ThompsonEoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 02/09/2026It's now extremely hard for Irish people to conceive what a wild tree even looks like, with mostly only domesticated, tamed versions remaining. This rainforest holly gives an idea. Rewilding is how we allow not only wild trees back, but the entire ecosystems of which they're meant to be a part. 492385345
Reposted by Kaspa ThompsonCamellia Tea Ceremony @camelliakyoto.bsky.social · 31/08/2026🙏THE MONEY SHRINE💸 For those of you worrying about money (understandable given the constant creeping inflation), there's a shrine in Kyōto that promises some divine help... ...Mikane-jinja (御金神社), the 'Money Shrine'. On certain days of the month you will need to queue to get close! #Kyoto #Japan 14312
Reposted by Kaspa ThompsonBex Luther @superbreeze.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Poland and Lalaland implies the further existence of Dipsyland and Tinkywinkyland 832582
Kaspa Thompson @kaspalita.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Episode Two of my new podcast is now live: Why do we ring the singing bowl at the start of practice, what has that got to do with hungry ghosts? What are hungry ghosts? etc. humannaturebuddhanature.com/podcast/epis...humannaturebuddhanature.comEpisode Two: Ringing the Singing Bowl, Hungry Ghosts, Small Miracles and Smoke Gets in Your Eyes – Human Nature/Buddha Nature 000
Reposted by Kaspa ThompsonMarie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 19/08/2026wrote about that ADHD documentary, my own life as someone apparently living the perfect life of the unmedicated ADHD poster child, and why no amount of "oh but the system should change, not the people" doesn't work: www.thenewworld.co.uk/marie-le-con... 3348784
Reposted by Kaspa ThompsonNadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Here’s some photos of my dog during the eclipse 61056
Kaspa Thompson @kaspalita.bsky.social · 14/08/2026"the extreme summer temperatures expose a serious policy gap." 000
Reposted by Kaspa ThompsonJames Ball @jamesrball.com · 14/08/2026No one wants this! Westminster has redicalosed itself against net zero targets. The public has not! These policies are popular, not least because the public only has to look out the window to see the need for climate action. 34464114
Reposted by Kaspa ThompsonDr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 14/08/20261/ Is this headline misleading? Yes, but not in the direction you'd expect. The problem isn't that it exaggerates. It's that it puts in 2100 what has already started. 🧵 9316121
Reposted by Kaspa ThompsonGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 14/08/2026If @andyburnham.bsky.social were Prime Minister during the Blitz: "There is an urgent problem of bombs falling on London. They appear to be coming out of the sky. We convened a COBRA meeting to discuss it. The root causes of this problem are not something I am prepared to discuss." #ClimateEmergency 631168364
Reposted by Kaspa ThompsonReactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Congratulations to E.J. Swift for winning the Arthur C. Clarke Award for When There Are Wolves Again!!reactormag.comE.J. Swift Wins the Arthur C. Clarke Award for When There Are Wolves Again - ReactorThe award celebrates its 40th anniversary this year 0515
Reposted by Kaspa ThompsonMet Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · 13/08/2026Temperatures have now provisionally exceeded 37°C 🌡️ Before 2026, the UK had recorded 37°C or higher on only six occasions. This year alone, we've already reached that mark three times. 10258194
Kaspa Thompson @kaspalita.bsky.social · 13/08/2026"Acceptance means allowing what is real to be real. It means not excluding things from your awareness. ‘Acceptance’ is shorthand for ‘accepting what is true is true’. If we accept that whatever is true, is true, then we can be recognised as a Buddha."substack.comHow to be a Buddha: Acceptance of Everything, Including the Climate Crisis“… if you actually accepted everything, you would be a recognized Buddha.” 000
Reposted by Kaspa ThompsonArthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Good luck to everyone getting their A levels today and remember, if you don’t get the grades you’d hoped for, all is not lost. For example, Prince Edward got a C and 2 Ds and was immediately accepted by Cambridge University. 251528279
Reposted by Kaspa ThompsonC Z A R I N A @czarinaofficial.com · 12/08/2026Total Solar Eclipse, 2026 From Costa da Morte, Galicia 🇪🇸 With perfectly timed seagulls adding to the drama 917835
Reposted by Kaspa ThompsonMatthew Stewart @roguestrands.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Here's an ace poem by Matt Merritt. It might seem a bit of fun at first, but it packs a real punch... 1476